Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [pron] [noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Archives in Europe seem far less concerned with the issues surrounding the preservation of the products of electronic office systems and e-mail which so exercise their counterparts in North America ( for a discussion of some of this literature see Cook : 1991–2 and Higgs : 1992 ; see also discussion in creators section of this volume ) . |
| 2 | This situation is far more benign than people obsessed with freedom make it sound , because what comes to us by no choice of our own is a gift — a whole world which we could not possibly have made and at which , in spite of all its horrors , we can on the whole only bow our heads in wonder . |
| 3 | I give you ten years , sir , ’ he said to Havvie , ‘ but you are in bad condition , I see , so sweeten your language in future , or it will be the worse for you . ’ |
| 4 | The affair between village head teacher Beth and one of her teachers , Hywel , is included an affair that has already run its course in Welsh . |
| 5 | You no longer take your vitamins in pill form these days — the latest trend is to rub them into your skin . |
| 6 | In the world of nations on their shorter timescale , when two enemies each progressively improve their weaponry in response to the other side 's improvements , we speak of an ‘ arms race ’ . |
| 7 | But most pathogenic bacteria rapidly lose their viability in air and even in fully saturated conditions aerosols evaporate quickly , with desiccation of micro-organisms . |
| 8 | There is no doubt that their super-sensitive barbules detect our lines just as easily as they detect food , but , fortunately for us , they usually accept our offerings in spite of the obvious danger they have felt , though the same danger compels them to take the bait ‘ hit-and-run ’ style . |
| 9 | They still retain their stronghold in southwest Scotland and northern England today . |
| 10 | Formulaic genres and cliched conventions can no longer claim any purchase on vivid immediate reality , and hence lose their place in public opinion . |
| 11 | Part of this myth is perpetrated by educationists who have been no nearer a press shop than a picture in a newspaper ; parents also see their offspring in cleaner , more ‘ respectable ’ jobs . |
| 12 | Sad claims , but nothing compared to an NME reviewer 's view that the band Flowered Up should n't be allowed to play in clubs , because black music has always been the mainstay there , and Flowered Up have their roots in rock . |
| 13 | Strange physical phenomena often have their explanations in legend — a particularly colourful story accounts for the scree slope of Sgriob na Cailich on Beinn a Chaolais on the Inner Hebridean Island of Jura . |
| 14 | For a start their club , who were originally based at the old St Margaret 's baths , now have their headquarters in West Derby and do most of their training in Speke . |
| 15 | Please spare my copies in future by sending them in a pale pink envelope with flowers on . |
| 16 | The user should either remove any references to this module from all user packages or alternatively reserve its name in LIFESPAN . |
| 17 | Many candidates simply leave their answer in mid-air . |
| 18 | His parents had settled in East Dulwich at the time of his registration for Battersea Polytechnic , Michael Joyce having by then cut his losses in building or ‘ architecture ’ and opened his grocer 's shop in this prosperous middle-class suburb . |
| 19 | He had been a sick man , chiefly concerned to ensure the undisputed succession of his son and then end his days in peace . |
| 20 | It can let its guilty pleas stand and then take its chances in court . |
| 21 | You then write your name in block capitals . |
| 22 | This position would be retained and they proceeded each to rest his chin on the other 's shoulder — heads nuzzled close together like horses lodged in affection — and then swing their arms in order to take a grip on the flattened back of their opponent . |
| 23 | All the differences that have been discussed between basalts , andesites and rhyolites fundamentally reflect their differences in composition , and this in turn is a function of the geological environment in which the lavas occur . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's no use you being in love with him any more than me , Retty Priddle , ’ said Marian , the eldest . |
| 25 | In fact it 's me what 'as ter keep my crowd in order . |